This article explains how to shrink an existing drive partition (with data on it), using the built in tools provided with Windows Vista. In older times, if you wanted to resize an existing partition with data on it, you would have to use third party utilities such as Partition Magic, Symantec Ghost. Proprietary third party programs like these are expensive and usually take longer than our method. There are free disk imaging alternatives such as Gparted and DriveImage, but again those all are time consuming as well.

Have you ever gotten into a situation where your windows screen resolution gets altered unexpectedly? You try and fix it by going to display manger, but the display is so huge (screen resolution is set so small), that you can't even see the OK button because it won't fit on your monitor? What can you do now? You can try using your keyboard and try tabbing to it, but you would have to second guess how many tabs you need.

The Network Access Quarantine Control in Windows prohibits network access to a private network unless the machine connecting to the network is validated against certain preset conditions. These conditions are checked by an administrator approved script, this is typically enforced by Internet Authentication Service (IAS) and / or Remote Access Servers (RAS)

Lately I came across a situation where I had to re-install Windows XP on machine from scratch using an OEM install CD, I had an OEM CD that installed on the machine without any problem, but it did an auto install with the key that came with it.